Worst Cover Versions Ever...

You just knew I was going to say..This..

SteveStrummerUK


 
Fine Young Cannibals - Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
 
Original Version - Buzzcocks
 

Ugh.

I'd forgotten how ropey that actually was...

 
Take That - Smells Like Teen Spirit
 
 
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
 
 
BRB - just off to gouge out my eyes and puncture both my ear drums
 
 
 
And this is pure unadulterated sh1te - Judas Priest - Johnny B. Goode

Candy Flip - Strawberry Fields Forever

Blimey..

Madonna - American Pie

Rain

spacey


Before I say...I hope I don't offend anyone.

I've never heard anybody do a Jimi Hendrix tune that I liked. If Jimi did it....couldn't
be done better. JMO so be nice. :)

Even SRV's Little Wing? - I think the man himself wouldn't have disapproved it.
 
 

I can understand somebody not being able to hear the difference or preferring SRV- I LIKE the way Jimi does it and given  a choice to listen...I'd rather listen to Jimi do it.
Yep..."nobody" is the way I feel when it comes to Hendrix...nobody comes close.
"liked better" would have been better said.
 
Yes I did sidestep "worse" for somebody I can't see anybody covering better..so any Hendrix cover is "worse".
  
 

And the winner is... Yuck!

(Have a barf bag ready.)

I tried, but couldn't think of anything worse than this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWhj0e60jyc
 
 
"everybody on the dancefloor darlings, we're going to dance with the devil..."  - ouch.

anything by Metallica...and adding a bad singer makes it worse! really really bad solo too... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuYcbEYbN_A

Rain

spacey

Rain

spacey


Before I say...I hope I don't offend anyone.

I've never heard anybody do a Jimi Hendrix tune that I liked. If Jimi did it....couldn't
be done better. JMO so be nice. :)

Even SRV's Little Wing? - I think the man himself wouldn't have disapproved it.

I can understand somebody not being able to hear the difference or preferring SRV- I LIKE the way Jimi does it and given  a choice to listen...I'd rather listen to Jimi do it.
Yep..."nobody" is the way I feel when it comes to Hendrix...nobody comes close.
"liked better" would have been better said.

Yes I did sidestep "worse" for somebody I can't see anybody covering better..so any Hendrix cover is "worse".
 

Understood. I don't really "compare" them though. Jimi was/is unique. 


Still, to me, Stevie is one of the few (I can think of no other at the moment) who could have been allowed to touch the material.  Maybe Tommy Bolin if he had ever attempted to.


But Hendrix remains the master.

We have to compare to make our determination. The problem is once Hendrix did a tune nothing else would compare. I don't know if we agree on that but it's my opinion. I believe that Stevies' version of Little Wing is probably the best
cover of a Hendrix tune I know of and can understand why you brought it up...but just no comparison to me.
When SRV does Little Wing no matter how hard he's tries, he sounds like SRV. And I admire his playing and have learned many of his tunes. But what made both of them great is something nobody will ever be able to cover better.
It can only be different.
I've never learned a Hendrix tune. I could.....and it would be another cover worse than what Hendrix did.
 
Really went in this direction because I don't know what the worse cover tune is...not a clue. I do have thoughts
about musicians and bands that can't be covered better so every cover is worse...spacey logic but it's all I have :)
 
 
 
 

SteveStrummerUK


 
Fine Young Cannibals - Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
 
Original Version - Buzzcocks
 

I love the Buzzcocks!  Everybody's happy nowadays! Most melodic punk ever.  

I found a few that totally reek.  

Bill Cosby - Sgt Peppers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xauvA9flBnw


Bill Shatner - Rocket Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvQwXOCKNLY

Tiny Tim - Do you think Im Sexy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_jlF-sRqk&feature=player_embedded#!

Hillary Duff - My Generation- Truly atrocious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvC6jDrxT-U

Dolly Parton -Stairway to Heaven (actually the interpretation is good but this is just too much)
http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2007/badcovers/part3.html

Old55- It's such a great tune and even like this version by such a great player...left cold when compared to Hendrix.
I'd still have a time calling the worse version but no trouble on the best. Some things just can't be better-only different. (not only with Hendrix and this tune...most all my favorites I feel are like that)

SteveStrummerUK



 
 
And this is pure unadulterated sh1te - Judas Priest - Johnny B. Goode

Actually, I quite enjoyed that, I liked the extra riffs they threw in. Believe me, a band I was in 15 years ago did a much, much worse version..

Reminded me - The Cure did a cover of Purple Haze. Not sure I'd have forgiven that one if they weren't one of my all-time favorite bands.

It is interesting to hear how Hendrix influenced musicians in all genres, how they understood him, assimilated a little tiny fragment of what he has accomplished. Still, the cover in itself...